Mogadishu ─ The Ethiopian government has succeeded in leading the leadership of the African Union Mission in Somalia Amisom. General. Tigabu Yilma Wondimhunegn from Ethiopia has officially taken over the leadership of Amisom forces in Somalia after a briefing at Amisom base in Mogadishu. The new battalion took over, General. Jim Beesigye Owoyesigire and running

Since the election of the new Somali President in 2017, the country’s relationship with the UAE has deteriorated steadily. The wealthy Gulf state seems determined to punish the war-torn coastal nation for refusing to take sides in its diplomatic dispute with Qatar, actively withdrawing military support. Consequently, the UAE risks undoing its record of progress

Violators face 1-year jail time, €15K fine French lawmakers approved a bill Thursday that restricts the use of masks to hide faces during demonstrations. Protesters wearing masks or covering faces during demonstrations will face one year of imprisonment and €15,000 ($17,200) fine, according to the bill. The French National Assembly also approved local governors to

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, apparently searching for regional friends amid weeks of protests against his 30-year rule, announced on Thursday he was reopening the border with neighboring Eritrea, shut for a year. Sudanese security forces used tear gas to disperse protests in the capital Khartoum and elsewhere on Thursday, witnesses said. A police spokesman said

FILE PHOTO: Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro touches a gold bar as he speaks during a meeting with the ministers responsible for the economic sector at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela March 22, 2018. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo Venezuela will sell 15 tonnes of gold from central bank vaults to the United Arab Emirates in coming days

The United States military said Thursday it has killed 24 al-Shabab extremists with an airstrike in Somalia, one of its deadliest in months. The airstrike was carried out on Wednesday near an extremist camp near Shebeeley in the central Hiran region north of the capital, Mogadishu, the U.S. Africa Command said in a statement. It

Britain’s carmakers issued a stark assessment Thursday about Brexit’s impact on the industry, warning Thursday that two-thirds of the country’s global trade is at risk if the U.K. leaves the European Union without an agreement on future trade. Investment in the industry fell 46 percent last year and new car production dropped 9.1 percent to

President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire, welcomed top UN official Rosemary DiCarlo for talks, some four weeks after the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) took the decision to expel the UN’s most senior representative in the country, Nichoas Haysom, declaring him persona non grata. The Government accused the veteran South African

A bipartisan group of lawmakers from both chambers of Congress reintroduced legislation Wednesday that could halt U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The war powers resolution already passed the Senate in December but failed to gain traction in the then-Republican-controlled House, which has since changed hands. It is not only a challenge to

The Saudi-led coalition is prepared to use “calibrated force” to push the Iranian-aligned Houthi movement to withdraw from Yemen’s Hodeidah port city under a U.N.-sponsored deal, a senior United Arab Emirates official said on Wednesday. Yemen’s warring parties have failed to pull troops from the country’s main port under a month-old truce, reviving the threat